IDA Past President Video Series

IDA’s Historical Archives Committee took on the task of videotaping interviews of all the previous IDA Presidents who are still alive. A previous Vice-president, Louisa Moats, was also interviewed.  The interviews were carried out at the 2012 Annual Conference in Baltimore. Members of the committee carried out the interviews. They are: Wilson Anderson, Karen Dakin, Marcia Henry, Amy Lawrence, Martha Renner, and Mark Westervelt. Mark provided the technical support for the videotaping. The videos, starting with Drake Duane, MD., will appear each month in The Examiner.

Thank you to all who made these videos, so rich in IDA history, as well as rich in the history of the field of dyslexia, possible.

Drake Duane, M.D.
IDA President from 1976-1980
Interviewed by Marcia Henry, Ph.D.

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C. Wilson Anderson, M.A.T.
IDA President from 1988-1992
Interviewed by Marcia Henry, Ph.D.

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Marcia Henry, Ph.D.
IDA President from 1992-1996
Interviewed by Martha Renner

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Gordon Sherman, Ph.D.
IDA President from 1996-1999
Interviewed by Georgette Dickman

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Harley A. Tomey, III
IDA President from 2000-2002
Interviewed by Mark Westervelt

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Nancy Hennessy, M.Ed.
IDA President from 2003-2005
Interviewed by Emerson Dickman

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G. Emerson Dickman, III, J.D.
IDA President from 2006-2008
Interviewed by Karen Dakin

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Guinevere Eden, D.Phil.
IDA President from 2009-2011
Interviewed by Karen Dakin

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Louisa Moats, Ed.D.
IDA Vice President from 2008-2010
Interview by Karen Dakin

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